Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)

The Secret Lake

Details
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
The Secret Lake
signed, titled in Japanese and dated 'Yayoi Kusama 1988' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
20 7/8 x 18 1/8in. (53 x 46cm.)
Painted in 1988
Provenance
Anon. sale, Mallet Japan, 25 April 2008, lot 81.
Galerie Vintage, Paris.
Further details
‘My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of the unbounded universe, from my own position in it, with dots – an accumulation of particles forming the negative spaces in the net. How deep was the mystery? Did infinite infinities exist beyond our universe? In exploring these questions I wanted to examine the single dot that was my own life. One polka dot: a single particle among billions’
(Y. Kusama, quoted in Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama, London 2011, p.23).

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